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Woman at Work

Date: 03 24 1969
Description: Young woman at work designing a magazine cover.
Book or Pamphlet

Map of Women's Work Hour Limitations

Date: 1915
Description: Map showing each state's work hour limitations for women.
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Women Working at McCormick Works

Date: 06 1907
Description: Women working in a finishing (?) parts room at McCormick Works.
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Women Assembling Light Sockets

Date: 07 06 1942
Description: Four women assembling light sockets.
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Women Workers at Four Wheel Drive

Date: 
Description: Women employees at Four Wheel Drive's Clintonville factory.
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Women Tire Builders

Date: 04 20 1954
Description: Women work in a row on machinery building tires.
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Women with Metal Parts at West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Three women are posing while holding metal parts manufactured at West Pullman Works.
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Secretaries at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Three women are performing secretarial work in an office at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory).
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Women at West Pullman Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory workers Wilma Bowen (left) and an unidentified woman are sitting at a table piled with metal parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works....
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Women Metal Fabricators

Date: 1946
Description: Women workers at Moe Brothers.
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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Women Supervisor's Conference

Date: 1943
Description: Female factory supervisors watch a man demonstrating a machine operation at the Women Supervisors' Conference held at International Harvester's West Pullma...
Photograph

Female Factory Workers at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Four women are packing and closing wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Female Employees at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1921
Description: Female factory workers standing at work stations at Milwaukee Works. The women are likely engaged in the manufacture of cream separators.
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Women Finishing Leather

Date: 1914
Description: Women working in the N.R. Allen Sons tannery during World War I. The women are finishing leather. An older man is hauling a cart load of hides at center.
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Women Assembling Torpedoes

Date: 1943
Description: Three women work on a line of torpedoes at an International Harvester factory. The women wear uniforms and hats embroidered with the IHC logo. There is a m...
Poster

Both Working for Victory

Date: 1943
Description: Poster of a woman driving a Red Cross truck and a woman on a Farmall tractor with the text "Now farm work is war work," and "Join the Farm Victory Voluntee...
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Cafeteria at McCormick Works

Date: 1902
Description: Three women standing in a factory cafeteria, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works.
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Women at Uniroyal Factory

Date: 
Description: A group of women work at machines making tires. Men are in the background on the right working on other machines.

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